• Firewall - Like Rip Van Winkle with a $25 million per picture deal, nap-addled gruff boy Harrison Ford has seen his career hibernate for more than a decade now, scoring hit upon forgettable hit. Ford's latest variation on a theme is, like the bulk of his post-Indiana Jones filmography, predictable formula fare, and therein lies its broad appeal. In what ultimately feels like a diluted remake of Ron Howard's 1996 thriller, Ransom, he plays a bank security expert whose family is held captive in exchange for his aid in electronically liberating $100 million. Bad guy Paul Bettany sneers and jeers so much that we know from the moment he turns up that Ford is going to heroically beat him and his dirty, dirty bastards, and our belief that goodness triumphing over ee-vil will be renewed. Able British stalwart Richard Loncraine, who directed Bettany in Wimbledon, paints this one by-the-numbers, and anyone looking for what might be their last Harrison Ford fix before Indy 4 (and presumed retirement) will get what they paid for, though very little more.

• A preview of all the new spring films, including Freedomland, 16 Blocks, Date Movie, Thank You For Smoking, and V For Vendetta. 
• New movies: they give Firewall a D-, Curious George a B-, and The Pink Panther remake a C.
• Hey, what's James Cameron up to?
• New DVDs: both Proof and Wallace & Gromit: The Case of the Were-Rabbit get an A-. 

• Curious George: Several surprised critics - our own James Rocchi among them - found themselves impressed by the charm and ease of this effort. As Robert Ebert (who somehow managed to work a Walt Whitman quote into his review) points out, however, Curious George is definitely made for children, and many (presumably) adult viewers found themselves understandably bored by the movie.

• Firewall: Though pretty much no one (apart from James and the always-unpredictable Roger Ebert) really liked this one, it nevertheless prompted a handful of critics to unusual moments of creativity. To wit: Ty Burr of the Boston Globe suggests a pair of alternate titles (Proxy Server!, SOCKS Protocol), Mick LaSalle confesses his secret Harrison Ford-watching technique (he pretends all of Ford's characters are just one guy with a really, really stressful life), while Manohla Dargis indulges in a fairly apt Ford career summary.

• The Pink Panther: Shock of shocks, the movie mostly sucks. Hands up if you knew that when the first trailer came out last year. Yeah, that's all of you. Sadly for most of the nation's critics, however, they actually had to see the movie before they wrote their reviews. In case you really, really want to see it, good reviews can be found, but even those contain phrases like "Farcical mayhem" and "...a pleasant surprise, if not quite a golden goose." The most faint praise, however, comes from Ty Burr, who I swear is not paying me off. In his review, he gleefully reports that "this new version of the misadventures of Inspector Clouseau...isn't a black hole of unfunniness." Wow, get me a ticket to that one!

• Final Destination 3: While no one claims this one is very good, more than a few critics found themselves enjoying what they panned because of the film's abundant clever humor (even if the humor does happen to revolve around death). The best line of all comes from Kyle Smith of The New York Post, who sums the movie's attitude up in two, gleeful words: "Yay Death!"

“Yes, as through this world I've wandered I've seen lots of funny men; Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen ...”

Anyway, while promoting the crap out of his new film Firewall, Harrison Ford had some very nice things to say about Madsen, who plays his on screen wife in the film. "She was an absolute delight - professional, very talented and simply, very sweet." Okay, we get it - you have to kiss her ass a little in order to get folks to watch your movie - but what about Indy 4? "She also took what could have been a fairly one-dimensional damsel in distress role and added so many layers to it - there isn't many who could do that." Actually, there are many who could do that - but what about Indy 4!?

"I'd work with her again. I'm actually hoping she'll come over for Indiana Jones. We've talked about it." Yes! Finally! So if Madsen lands a role alongside Indy, who would she play? A wife? A mistress? An evil wife/mistress? Either way, we know she'd play a love interest of sorts. I mean, c'mon - Indy digs those blondes. Don't we all?

For all of you out there wondering whether or not 63-year-old Harrison Ford can still crack the whip, the man himself told Coming Soon he's as ready as he'll ever be. In a Q&A about his role in the new thriller Firewall, Ford took on the one question roaming about everyone's minds: Will his age hinder another action packed Indiana Jones adventure?

"I can't tell you anything about Indiana Jones, but I think you've just seen a film in which I perform physically to an extent [that will be] sufficient for Indiana Jones.'" In Firewall, Ford actually has a scene in which he battles baddie Paul Bettany, while being thrown through glass and over a balcony. Yeah, I suppose that's sufficient enough - but something still tells me we'll have a younger actor alongside Indy to help kick things up a notch. Kind of like the relationship between Ford and Sean Connery in the Last Crusade, only I expect Indy to do his fair share of ass kicking.

Still no word on a script approval, but Ford did note that "the audience is there and everybody involved is anxious to make the film again." Hurray! Now if we can just get it done within Ford's two-year ultimatum window, then we've got ourselves an Indiana Jones 4 on the way.